The tribes have turned their back on stewardship of wild salmon recovery by agreeing to not legally enforce environmental laws associated with dam operations such as water temperature and gas bubble disease or dam removal as a necessary salmon recovery action. By joining the Bush administration salmon

Bill McMillan is doing some deep dig research on the history of Columbia River salmon and steelhead runs and the places where they use to be. This is article is not recommended for those that are not resistant to flashes of anger and malice.

Three published studies zero in on changes in hatchery reared chinook and compare them to wild chinook. They found that hatchery chinook are changed by hatchery rearing; they diverge from the wild form in ways that affect their physical form, behavior, and survival.

TOM VENESKY OUTDOORSMoney is a powerful thing. Powerful enough to change mindsets. Powerful enough to transform environmental gems into industrial sites.Powerful enough to open up 75,000 acres of state forest to natural gas drilling.Late last month, the state Department of Conservation

WASHINGTON -- Despite protests by some senators worried about world energy production, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill Wednesday putting 1.2 million acres of the Wyoming Range off-limits to future oil and gas production.Sen. John Barrasso introduced the bill

CHEYENNE - More groundwater extracted by coalbed methane operators in the Powder River Basin is being cleaned so it can be discharged into river drainages, and the trend should continue as operators move into areas of the basin where water quality worsens.Last year, gas companies treated about

The U.S. and European Union should reconsider a shift to biofuels that has helped increase food prices worldwide by turning agricultural land over to energy crops, American economist Jeffrey Sachs said Monday. Targets to produce more fuels that release less carbon dioxide when burned "do not make